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Rihanna’s Best Met Gala Red Carpet Looks Throughout the Years

At the 2018 Met Gala, Rihanna will serve as co-chair alongside Donna Karan and Amal Clooney. This year’s costume exhibit is called “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” and if history tells us anything, Rihanna is sure to defy expectations while still following the theme. After all, in 2015, the year that showcased China’s influence in fashion, Rihanna shut down the red carpet when she swanned in wearing a canary-yellow cape of legendary proportions. The couture piece by Guo Pei took two years to make (and twice as many men to carry), and would go down as one of the most memorable looks to ever make its way up the museum’s grand staircase.

It wouldn’t be the first time—or the last—that Rihanna delivered a pitch-perfect homage to the evening’s honoree. In 2017, when the exhibit highlighted Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Rihanna managed to make an architectural CDG confection covered in floral fabrics layered and pulled apart like petals look next-level. She hasn't had to rely on avant-garde embellishments or impossibly extravagant trains to go rogue, either. In 2014, Rihanna sported a relatively understated hip-hugging, navel-grazing Stella McCartney crop top that, while perfectly on trend, was not exactly Charles James–inspired. In other words, expect the unexpected when it comes to Rihanna, particularly at this year’s Met Gala, when her name is on the invitation.